Songkhla is the one of the south provinces of Thailand. Neighboring provinces of Songkhla include Satun, Pattani, Phatthalung, Nakhon Si Thammarat, and Yala. To the south it boundaries Kedah and Perlis of Malaysia. In compare to most else provinces, the capital Songkhla is not the biggest town in the province. The much newer town of Hat Yai, with a community of 194,000, is two moments as large-scale as Songkhla. This often directs to the misconception that Hat Yai is the regional capital.

Songkhla is the province is established on the Malay Peninsula, onto the seaboard frontier of the Gulf of Thailand. The largest elevation is the Khao Mai Kaeo at 821 meters. In the northern of the province is Songkhla lake, the large-scale natural lagoon in Thailand. This superficial lagoon wrappings an locality of 1,040 km², and has a south-north span of 78 kilometers. At its mouth onto the Gulf of Thailand beside the town of Songkhla, the water becomes brackish. A little community of Irrawaddy Dolphins reside in the lagoon, but are within hazard of extinction due towards being unintentionally apprehended in the snares of the localized angling industry.